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EA and DICE don’t want you mistaking Battlefield V for a Ken Burns documentary, what with this sick-looking robo-arm soldier saving your life. We’ll have to wait and see whether the Frostbite engine renders such detailed faces in BFV‘s live gameplay. Volumetric plumes look incredible in the trailer—which is no …

Yesterday, when Sony told Japanese investors that the PS4 is “entering the end of its lifecycle” (as translated by The Wall Street Journal‘s Takashi Mochizuki), we held off on repeating the news until we got clarification on what exactly that meant. Today, Mochizuki reports in WSJ that it means the …

NASA has awarded a contract to Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation, Boulder, Colorado, for the primary instrument components for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). Read Automatic By TracePress.com Company if this Post need Change Tell Us!

Enlarge / A Linksys WRVS4400N, one of more than a dozen network devices targeted by VPNFilter. Hackers, possibly working for an advanced nation, have infected more than 500,000 home and small-office routers around the world with malware that can be used to collect communications, launch attacks on others, and permanently …

Enlarge / GOES-17 is in space now, where fixing problems is… difficult. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released some bad news today: the GOES-17 weather satellite that launched almost two months ago has a cooling problem that could endanger the majority of the satellite’s value. GOES-17 is the …

Enlarge / A facepalm with ponies seems to be the most reasonable response to the proposed science education standards. In Arizona, the state’s superintendent of public instruction has led a campaign to remove evolution from the state’s science education standards. Diane Douglas has taken the standards, written by educators, and …

Bean, Luci, and Elfo prepare for some ominous tree-like danger in this Disenchanted art reveal. Netflix / ULULU Bean is a “hard-drinking young princess,” and this revealed image implies that she’ll spend some of the series’ time chilling in a castle. Elfo looks particularly Bart Simpson-like in this castle-lounging shot. …

Comcast today said it is preparing an offer to buy major portions of 21st Century Fox, which would give it majority control of Hulu and other media properties. Walt Disney Company already has a $52.4 billion all-stock deal to buy the 21st Century Fox properties. But Comcast was rumored to …

Enlarge / NTSB officials inspecting the vehicle that killed Elaine Herzberg in a March crash in Arizona. NTSB Uber is shutting down testing of self-driving cars in Arizona after one of its cars killed a pedestrian in a March crash. In an internal email, Uber executive Eric Meyhofer wrote that …

Enlarge / The plasma vessel has a shape that mimics that of the magnetic field. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics Many moons ago, Ars was introduced to the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator (W7-X), an experimental fusion concept. At the time, W7-X—the world’s largest stellarator—had just completed some warm-up tests and …